Hi, Op Sat 25 Dec 2010 om 09:38:19 +0200 schreef Avi Rozen: > On 12/25/2010 08:21 AM, Joost van Baal wrote: > > Andres Mejia wrote: > > <snip> > >> this package should be orphaned. > > <snip> > > > > Is Avi Rozen no longer interested in working on the noip2 Debian package? > > Not really.
> > If so, it should indeed get orphaned. Googling revealed: > > > > You should set the package maintainer to Debian QA Group > > <packa...@qa.debian.org> and submit a bug report against the > > pseudo package wnpp. The bug report should be titled O: package > > -- short description indicating that the package is now orphaned. > > The severity of the bug should be set to normal. [...] send a > > copy to <debian-de...@lists.debian.org> by putting the address > > in the X-Debbugs-CC: header of the message [...] > I'm still using no-ip.com services, but I've recently switched to using > ddclient as the update client. Jakub Wilk wrote: >>> The only place noip2 store configuration data (apart from the debconf >>> cache) is a binary blob in /var/lib/noip2/. This file will be happily >>> overwritten on each upgrade using *only* values supplied by debconf. > > And the bug should be fixed too, of course... > As for the current bug, I'd like to point out that noip2 configuration > and runtime state has always been kept in a binary "configuration" file. > This doesn't match the Debian policy, and the current "abuse" of debconf > is the result of a our deliberate attempt to workaround it. As documented in Bug #430842, I just found out. However, this still is a serious bug. Currently, someone who makes local changes to the content of the configuration file /var/lib/noip2/noip2.conf by running the noip2 client will lose her changes at an upgrade. Currently, no-ip offers debconf support for managing username, password, updating, matchlist, netdevice and forcenatoff. I assume this is generally really sufficient to use no-ip. An extra plain text conffile needs to be introduced, and the advice in debconf-devel(7)'s "ADVANCED PROGRAMMING WITH DEBCONF - Config file handling" needs to be followed. Users should be advised not to change /var/lib/noip2/noip2.conf directly. I believe this way one fully adheres to http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.2 . It won't be trivial... Bye, Joost -- irc:joos...@{oftc,freenode} ∙ http://mdcc.cx/ ∙ http://ad1810.com/
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